Hardwood, tile, carpet rolls, and adhesive across warehouses that span an acre or more. Lot numbers, linear footage, partial pallets, and condition grading all tracked from receipt to job-site delivery.
Every industry has its quirks. Here are yours.
We've mapped the operational quirks of flooring & building materials against Nautilus capabilities. Each challenge here pairs with how we handle it.
Varied unit types
Square footage, linear feet, rolls, pallets, cases. Flooring inventory arrives in every unit of measure imaginable, and customers buy in mixed units.
Multi-unit inventory
Track the same product in square feet, cases, and pallets simultaneously. Nautilus converts between units automatically based on each SKU's setup.
Damage tracking
Partial rolls, chipped tiles, and dented boxes need to be flagged and tracked separately from sellable stock. Selling damaged as A-grade is a credit waiting to happen.
Condition grading
Scan and tag items by condition (A-grade, B-grade, damaged). Separate stock levels let the sales team quote honestly and document credits cleanly.
Job-site deliveries
Orders ship to dozens of job sites, not just one address. Knowing what went where, and when, becomes a full-time job without the right tooling.
Job-site tracking
Assign inventory to specific jobs and delivery addresses. Reports show exactly what was sent, received, and installed at every site.
From dock to door.
Every action a flooring & building materials warehouse takes, mapped to a Nautilus flow — running on phones, tablets, or rugged scanners.
Receive & inspect
Scan bills of lading. Confirm pallet counts; flag damaged units to a separate inventory state at the point of receipt.
Velocity putaway
Drop pallets by SKU velocity. Partial rolls and broken cases route to the cut zone for re-quantification.
Job-site pick
Picks consolidate by job site and delivery date. Long-length items pull to the dock first to anchor truck packing.
Stage & dispatch
Stage by truck route. Drivers scan to load; Nautilus generates a job-site manifest at dispatch.
What customers see.
Averages across Flooring & Building Materials customers in their first 12 months.
Flooring & Building Materials questions, answered.
The questions buyers in flooring & building materials ask before they sign. If yours isn't here, the team can answer it on a discovery call.
Can Nautilus convert between linear feet, square feet, and pallets automatically?
Yes. Each product carries unit-of-measure conversions during setup: a hardwood SKU might be defined as 24 sq ft per case and 36 cases per pallet. When you sell in any unit (sq ft to a contractor, cases to a distributor, pallets to a job site), Nautilus decrements stock in all three views simultaneously and reports inventory in whichever unit you ask for.
How do you handle partial pallets and roll remnants?
Receiving a 40-roll pallet of carpet, you scan the pallet as a unit. When 3 rolls leave for a job, Nautilus splits the pallet into 37 rolls remaining and tracks the new quantity automatically. Roll remnants (a 24 sq ft remainder from a 100 sq ft roll) re-scan into inventory with their actual dimensions, so the next quote sees real available stock rather than a phantom full roll.
Will Nautilus integrate with our delivery routing software?
If your routing software has an API or accepts CSV imports, yes. We have direct integrations to Onfleet, Routific, and OptimoRoute, and a generic webhook bridge for everything else. Pick lists export with job-site addresses and delivery windows attached so the routing software has what it needs.
Can we attach photos to damaged receiving items?
Yes. The scanner app lets the receiver photograph damage at the moment of receipt. Photos attach to that specific lot and travel with it through quarantine, supplier-credit, or sell-as-B-grade workflows. Useful for documenting credits with suppliers and for showing customers what 'B-grade' actually means before they buy.
See Nautilus running in a flooring & building materials warehouse.
Live demo with a warehouse engineer. 30 minutes. We bring the data, you bring the questions.